The main components of feed mill equipment in the feed pellet plant consists of feed grinding machine, feed mixing machine, feed pellet machine, feed pellets cooling machine and feed pellets packing machine. The auxiliary feed mill equipment is conveying machine, control cabinet, storage bins, dust collector, fire protection equipment and so on. See full list on feedpelletizer.com Basic feed mill equipment operations for making animal or poultry feed pellets include Raw Material Receiving, Grinding, Batching, Mixing, Pelleting, Cooling, Sifting, Packaging and Warehousing. Raw material receiving Feed mills are usually equipped to receive both rail and truck delivery of grains and other ingredients. Ingredients like meat, fish meal, fat, molasses and premixes are delivered by truck, whereas grains and soybean meal are usually delivered by rail. Dry ingredients are received either in bulk or in bags; liquid ingredients like fat and molasses are pumped directly into storage tanks within the feed mill; bulk grain and other ingredients are conveyed by the conveyor or bucket elevator to the cleaner to remove the nonmetalic foreign material and tramp metal and then are stored in the storage bins. Grinding Whole grains need to be ground by the feed hammer mill before mixing with other feed ingredients. Batching According to the feed formulation, various feed ingredien See full list on feedpelletizer.com Proper feed mill equipment maintenance can improve feed quality and operational efficiency, reduces the likelihood of feed contamination. Maintenance of feed mill equipment can be divided into four different types: routine maintenance, emergency maintenance, call-in maintenance, and preventive maintenance. Routine maintenance should be done on a scheduled basis. This may consist of lubrication of bearings, replacing wearing spare parts of feed mill equipment such as replacing hammer mill screens or pellet mill die of pellet mill, and checking oil levels in gear boxes. Emergency maintenance means reacting to unscheduled breakdowns and must be done immediately . Call-in maintenance usually involves an emergency situation where the people required are not at hand and must be summoned from somewhere else. Preventive maintenance consists of scheduled inspections and making adjustments and repairs to feed mill equipment, such as the replacement of worn parts prior to failure, based on obs... See full list on feedpelletizer.com